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Cast teams up with the Little Hoover Commission to address labor trafficking in California
Labor trafficking survivors have long made up a significant number of people trafficked in California and the U.S. As a hidden epidemic, labor trafficking is prevalent in our neighborhoods, cities...
New law gives human trafficking survivors access to income loss for commercial exploitation
California’s Governor Newsom has signed a groundbreaking bill into law enabling human trafficking survivors to receive lost income from California’s Crime Victim Compensation Fund (VCP). A first of its kind...
Cast receives National Partnership Award
The Los Angeles-based Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (Cast) has been named the 2019 National Award Winner of the Mutual of America Community Partnership Award. The Mutual of America...
Assemblywoman Christy Smith Advances Legislation to Help Victims of Human Trafficking
SACRAMENTO – Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita) and joint-author Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) moved forward AB 629 to help human trafficking victims rebuild their lives. The bill is cosponsored...
Kaiser Permanente Southern California partners with Cast LA to complete Human Trafficking Survivors’ Path to Wellness
CAST coordinates a continuum of compassionate, whole-person care to help victims of human trafficking access the care they need to recover and thrive for a lifetime. Integrated services range from...
Federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) Passes Congress
Every three years CAST and its national advocacy partners, The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking (ATEST) and The Freedom Network, USA, work to reauthorize the Federal Trafficking Victims Protection...
Cast releases the 2018 Impact Report
Read about the impact that Cast has made in 2018.
In Focus: Modern day slavery
Kay Buck, CEO of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, sheds light on the fight against human trafficking. In Focus California: SoCal airs Sundays at 8 a.m., and two...
More than 500 arrested, dozens saved in statewide crackdown on human trafficking
A statewide operation last week aimed at reducing human trafficking resulted in 510 arrests and more than 50 adult and juvenile women having been saved, authorities said Tuesday. “‘Operation Reclaim...
New legislation helps human trafficking victims get on their feet
“‘Under current regulatory guidance, very few human trafficking victims in California are able to recover lost income through the state’s Victim Compensation Program, despite suffering economic loss due to the...